Immasculate
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To make into a man; to make manly, or cause to have a male perspective. especially, transitive
"A larger number of plays than novels seem not to immasculate the female reader in the precise way Fetterley articulates. After having made my choices, I realized that the male-written plays analyzed in this book are all written by heterosexual-identified playwrights […]"
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More examples"A larger number of plays than novels seem not to immasculate the female reader in the precise way Fetterley articulates. After having made my choices, I realized that the male-written plays analyzed in this book are all written by heterosexual-identified playwrights […]"
Etymology
The verb was coined by Judith Fetterley in 1978; compare effeminate (verb); contrast emasculate.
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